Miss Abracadabra by Tom Ross (Paperback Book)

Name: Miss Abracadabra by Tom Ross (Paperback Book)
Brand: Deep Vellum Publishing

Deep Vellum Publishing

In lyrical, unconstrained prose, debut author Tom Ross tells a story of intergenerational change and conflict in a Black American family in the pre-Civil Rights era.\nLorraine \u0093Rain\u0094 Franklin\u0097whose family made their way north as part of the Great Migration and have settled in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York\u0097is lost. She stumbles through a series of questionable romantic encounters and assumed identities, and eventually into an unplanned pregnancy, struggling both to define herself in and against a fallen world and to achieve autonomy from her mother\u0092s repressive anxieties. Rain\u0092s misadventures are a parable of what it means to confront, however imperfectly, the contradictions of a Black community defining itself in midcentury America.\nFor twenty-five years, Tom Ross has been\n\nMiss Abracadabra\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that th;